Duplicate sales-check tag.



A. GREENSTEIN.

DUPLICATE SALES CHECK TAG.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20. 19:5.

1 1 99,692 Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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ABRILHAM GREENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUPLICATE SALES-CHECK TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentedsept; 26, 1916 Applicationflied September 20, 1915. Serial No. 51,546.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM GREEN- STEIN, a citi zen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedDuplicate Sales-Check Tag, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact de scription.

This invention relates to shipping devices and has particular referenceto improved facilities forthe billing and delivery of packages or otherarticles in or fromv retail. stores or the like.

In the ordinary practice in the delivery system of a large businesshouse, the salesman or clerk is provided with a salesbook with salesslips arranged therein in dupli cute and adapted for use of carbon paperor the like for making a duplicate record on the second sales slip Whilethe original r'ecoriginal or first sheet or slip is sent to the ofiiceand the duplicate slip is torn off and sent with the package. When thepackage is wrapped, the duplicate slip is folded or rolled and slippedwithin the package or beneath the cord, and when a considerable numberof such packages have accumulated, an employee pastes the loose slipsupon tags which are then tied upon thepackages. Among the disadvantagesof this present system may be noted, first, that the identificationslips become either torn, misplaced or lost in the interval between theapplication thereof to the packagesand thepasting operation; secondly,much time is lost in the pasting of the slips upon the packages inaddition to the inconvenience and delay incident to the loss of theslips; and thirdly, the expense of delivery is very much increased byreason, not only of additional clerk hire, but because of theotherinconveniences above referred to.

Among the objects of this invention, therefore, is to provide acombination duplicate salesbook and check tag having all-of thefacilities or advantages of the duplicating or manifolding system now inuse and without the several disadvantages referred to above.

More definitely stated, the invention comprises a duplicate salesbookhaving the usual original record slips and beneath each of which is aleaf or sheet adapted to receive the duplicate record, but whlch leafThe or sheet is formed of strong tough paper. or

its equivalent and having a hole at either or both ends whereby theduplicate sheet may be treated as a tag and readily adapted to be tiedto the package coincidentally with the wrapping of such package. 7 1ththe foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in thearrange meut and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed,and while the in-.

vention is not restricted to the exact details.

of construction disclosed herein, still for vthe purpose of illustratinga practical embodiment thereof, the figure is a face view in perspectiveof a duplicate salesbook made in accordance with this invention,fragments of the original sheet being torn off to disclose the tagsheet. 5

The numeral 10 indicates a salesbook havsecond or duplicate sheets 12arranged (in.

pairs and connected to the stub 13 by weaking first or original sheetsor slips 11, and

in two parts 11 and 11", these two parts being connected by a weakenedline 15. It will be understood, however, that the specific arrangementof these several partsha s no immediate bearing upon thepresentinvention. lint such parts are shown in order to set forth thecharacteristic features or advantages of the real invention. On' thesecond or duplicate sheet there are formed two parts 12* and 12"corresponding in form and arrangement of printed. matter to the similarparts of the first sheet. 12 and 12", however, are printed on strongtough and heavier paper suitable for use as tags to be tied upon thebundles. These parts are. connected by a weakened line 15 for easyseparation. The tag 12 is provided with a hole 16 and the shorter tag12" is provided with a hole 17, either tag of which is adapted to bereadily tied to the bundle coincidentally with the original wrappingthereof Without material loss of time or inconvenience.

By way of further explanation of the manner of using the invention in aC. O. D. transaction, the original thin slip 11' goes 'to the auditor,and the original thin slip 11 is sent to the C. O. D. clerk at theoilice. The tag slip 12* is tied to the package for collection and thetag 12 is wrapped within the package where it may be found for futureThe parts i the ofiice to prove deliverv.

identification should it be necessary to dupli- -ate the tag 12*. Thetagelip lil being longer tharl the slip 12' facilitates the handling ofthe packages with reference to hether the transaction'is (I. O. DQ or apaid or charged transaction. In practice; when the saleis madefor-cash'or charge, the original thin slip 11 is sent to' the auditor asbefore described and the shorter slip l1" i.'-: held by the p a3 hisvouch'er. The longer tags-lip 12 1; pu t'inside off the ack} age and theshorter't'ag slip 12" is tie as a shipping tag. This tagon removal fromthe package by 'thedeliveryinanis receipted on the hack hy therecipijentof the package and returned by the 'deliv'ervrhan or driver to I amaware that duplicate salesbooks are in comi'non use in u'liieh originaland dupli-' cate records are made simultaneously by a ealesman, theseveral checks thus produced being; adapted to be sent to differentdepartments of the el'vtahli'shment or utilized for difi'erentpurpoeee". I am also aware that it f 15 a common expedient to'provide ashipping tag to carry the name and address of the ad dressee of apackage or parcel to which the tag is adapted to hescured. I believe,however, it is new with me to construct or provide a saleshook havingthecharacteristics and advantages settorth herein and specifically claimedbelow. T

1. is a nevi article of manufacture, a manifold sales check'and'shippingtag hook, comprising a plurality of alternate thin and tough andheav vfieh'eetfs' boundtogethe'r at one end. and having weakenedli'nsadpcen't' the boundfends and vveakened line's intermediate oftheirends forming e'aeh'sheet into two parts, each part" having provision foraddress of purchaser andfor memoran duin of sale and amount of same andmovided with indications designating tllecimrpackage to serve" asashipping 'ftag ,"ah

cons'isting of a plurality o alternate t and tough and heavysheets boundtogether;

'at one end and {having weakened lineadjm acter 01 the transaction, theparts of the thin 45 and heavy sheets corresponding in and having thesame and registering: matter thereon the thin sheets being adapted toreceive the original record of. a transaction. and forming sal e checks,and the tough and 5 heavy sheets retxiving the duplicate dunetransaction androvided with an opehing to permit one 01 it5 .parts to betied av a receiptfor the delivery of the otherpart of id sheettification card.

2. As a new articleo'f manpfactn manifold sales check andshi'piri'g'ta-g cent the bound ends; and 'vveakeiied line-s 1interm'ediateof their ends"'forining each sheet" into two parts of unequalsize," eachpart- 85" I either "partto be tied toia package ac'cording tothe nature of" theftraitsjaction; to serve as a shipping tag for thesaline, and a-receipt; for

the deliver): of the package the other-part of said sheet serving: asjan 'ident1ticat1ofl card." p

ABRAHAMLGREENSTEIX.1

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